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Thursday,
July 31:
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8:30
am
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Breakfast/Registration
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8:50
am
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Welcome Remarks by Naoyuki
Yoshino, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute
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9:00 am
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Chair: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Gary Hansen, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Selo Imrohoroglu,
University of Southern California
Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in
Japan: A Neoclassical Perspective
Discussant: Fumio Hayashi, Hitotsubashi University and NBER
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10:00
am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Chair:
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and
NBER
Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
How Much Do Official Price
Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?
Discussant: Masahiro Higo, Bank of
Japan
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11:30 am
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Saroj Bhattarai, Pennsylvania
State University
Gauti Eggertsson, Brown
University and NBER
Bulat Gafarov,
Pennsylvania State University
Time
Consistency and the Duration of Government Debt: A Signalling
Theory of Quantitative Easing
Discussant: Emi Nakamura, Columbia
University and NBER
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12:30
pm
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Lunch
Chair: Takeo Hoshi, Stanford University and NBER
Lunch Speaker: Yasuchika Hasegawa, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Takeda
Pharmaceutical Company Limited
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2:00 pm
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Joe Peek, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Suparna Chakraborty, University of San Francisco
Lending to Unhealthy Firms in Japan during
the Lost Decade: WTF?
Discussant: Daisuke Miyakawa, Nihon University
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3:00
pm
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Break
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3:30 pm
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Chair: Tsutomu Watanabe, University of
Tokyo
Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ippei Fujiwara, Australian
National University
Aging and Deflation: Japanese Experience
Discussant: Jon Steinsson,
Columbia University and NBER
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4:30
pm
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Panel
Discussion
Moderated by: Takeo Hoshi, Stanford
University and NBER
Panelists:
Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER
Ryutaro Kono, BNP Paribas
Sayuri Shirai, Bank of
Japan
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6:00
pm
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Adjourn
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6:30
pm
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Dinner
Cruise of Tokyo Bay
Participants should meet in lobby of ADBI at 6:00 pm to be guided
to the pier
Address: 1-16-8 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Telephone: +81 (0)3 5479 2731
http://www.funasei.com/fsei_english.htm
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Friday,
August 1:
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8:30
am
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Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Chair: Ganeshan
Wignaraja, Asian Development Bank Institute
Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER
Andreas Moxnes, Dartmouth College and NBER
Yukiko Saito, RIETI
Production Networks, Geography and Firm
Performance
Discussant: Makoto Nirei,
Hitotsubashi University
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Chair: Charles Horioka,
University of the Philippines and NBER
Serguey Braguinsky,
Carnegie Mellon University
Atsushi Ohyama, Hokkaido University
Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Acquisitions,
Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning
Industry
Discussant: Tatsuo Ushijima, Aoyama Gakuin University
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11:30 am
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Jordan Siegel, Harvard University
Naomi Kodama, Hitotsubashi University
Hanna Halaburda, Harvard University
The Unfairness Trap: A Key
Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination
Discussant: Miki Kohara,
Osaka University
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12:30
pm
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Lunch
and Adjourn
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